Improvement in smoke-conductors for locomotives



A. STORM. Improvement in Smoke-Conductors for Locomotives.

' Patented Sep. 24,1872.

lvrrnn STATES ALFRED STORM, OF MATTEAWAN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SMOKE-CONDUOTORS FOR LOCOMOTIVES.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 131,639, dated September 24,1872.

To alliwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED sr'oiantf Matteawan, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have .invented a new and useful Improvement in Self-Adjusting Smoke- Conductor for Locomotives, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure '1 is a top view of a locomotive and one car, to which my improved smoke-conductor has been applied, part being brokenaway to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved device for conducting the smoke to and discharging it at the rear end of the train, and which shall be simple in construction, durable, not liable to get out of order, and

self-adjustin g to the various positions that the ears may take with respect to each other in passing around curves, 850.; and it consists in the construction and combination of the various parts of the device, as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents a railroad-car, B a locomotive, and Oits smoke-stack. In the rear side of the, Smokestack (J is secured the end of a pipe, I); theother end of which terminates at the rear end of the locomotive B. To the top of each car A of the train is attached a similar pipe,

D. The pipes D are all stationary, and their ends are all at the same level, so as to coincide with each other when the cars are run together. Upon the ends of the pipes D are fitted sleevesE, which are held outwa'rd by coiled or equivalent springs F, placed upon guidepins, which pass through lugs attached to said pipes and sleeves, and against which lugs the 'ends of the said springs rest. The outer ends of the sleeves E- are made bell-shaped, and are flanged, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, which ends abut against each other, and are held in contact as the cars play upon their couplings by the springs F. Gr is a flanged ring cap to receive the adjacent ends of the sleeves E, to cover the openings formed between them when the train passes around a curve, and thus prevent the escape of smoke through said openings.

The flare of the ends of the sleeves E allows the caps G to accommodate themselves to the positions of the said sleeves in passing around curves. As the cars again come into line the caps G are broughtback into position by the springs H,- attached to said sleeves E, and which rest against the flanges of the said caps G. i

In the stack 0 just above the opening leading into the pipe D is fitted a valve, I, which is attached to a shaft, J, which works in bearings in the stack 0. One end of the shaft J projectsand has a crank, K, formed upon it,

the Weight of which should be sufficient to bring the said valve back to its place when released. To the end of the crank Kis attached a cord, L, which passes back into such a position that it may beconveniently reached and operated by the engineer when he wishes the smoke to pass out through the said smokestack.

Having thus described my inventionfI claim as new and Patent- The springs F, arranged on pipe D upon pins placed in slots of sleeves E,as and for the purpose described.

ALFRED STORM.

desire to secureby Letters Witnesses:

R. L. CARPENTER, J OHN G. SANDFORD. 

